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H. R. ALLEN.

Machine for Greasing Bullets.

No. 240,635. Patented April 26, I881.v

zeki/ jiien NJETERS, FMMQLITMOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON n C 7 UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

HUBERT R. ALLEN, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WINCHESTERREPEATING ARMS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR GREASING BULLETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 2IO,635, dated April26, 1881.

t Application filed February 19, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUBERTR. ALLEN, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented new Improvements inMachines for Greasing Bullets; and I do hereby declare the following,when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the lettersof reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the same, and which said drawings coustitute part of thisspecification, and repre sent, in-

Figure l, a top or plan view Fig. 2 a transverse section through thereservoir; Fig. 3, a side view of the wick-tubes.

This invention relates to an improvement in machines for placing thelubricating material on bullets, commonly called bullet-greasing, theobject being to apply the lubricating material to the bullet while it isbeing rotated, and so that several coatings may be applied, if desired;and the invention consists in arevolving diskandastationarysegment,arranged to leave a space between the periphery ofthe disk and the segment, whereby bullets or cartridges with bulletsintroduced into said space will be caused to roll through said space bythe rotation of the disk, and in such rotation come into contact withand receive a coating of the lubricating material, as more fullyhereinafter described.

A is the disk, and B the segment, arranged to leave a space, a, betweenthem, the said disk caused to revolve and impart rotation to the bulletsor cartridges placed between them, substantially as do the disk andsegment in the well-known bullet-groovin g machines.

A floor, C, below the Space a serves to sup-' port the bullet orcartridge in a vertical position, the same as in the bullet-groovingmachine, but preferably revolves with the disk A at the same or a slowerrate of revolution.

D is the reservoir for the grease or lubricating material, the materialbeing held therein in a melted condition by heat directly applied, orotherwise. From the reservoir at one or more points an outlet, d, isarranged, preferably provided with a stop'coek, e, or other gate. Theoutlet (1 leads to a tube, f, standing in a horizontal plane, its outerend near where (No model.)

the lubricating material is to be applied. Within this tube is a wick orother suitable conductor, h, (see Fig. 2,) lubricating material willfreely pass. The wick h projects slightly from the tube, and so that thepassing bullet willroll in contact with the protruding end of the wick.

For convenience of adjusting the wick an adjuster, i, is arranged uponthe wick, the shaft of which extends outside the tube, and is providedwith a head, a, for turning it, substantially like wick-adjusters inlamp burners. Preferably several of these wick-tubes are arranged at thespace between the disk and segment, as seen in Fig. 1, at a shortdistance from each other, so that as the bullet passes the first it willreceive a certain amount of the warm grease, and which, before itreaches the second, will have cooled, so that the second wick will applyan additional coating, and so on-or one,for instance,may have a thinwick, as in Fig. 3, which will apply the grease directly into the grooveof the bullet, while another may be broader, as in Fig. 2, and apply thegrease over a greater extent. Usually this greasing is to be performedafter the bullet has been introduced into the shell, and as the lastoperation in completing the cartridge. The cartridges are set headdownward upon the floor C and carried along by it into the space a.

In order to separate the cartridges from each other to such an extentthat one will not rub the next, I apply a separator, E, near theeutrance to the recess a, which consists of a toothed wheel arranged sothat as the cartridge on the disk advances it will strike between twoteeth, as indicated at r, Fig. 1, and then advancing will turn theseparator, so that the next cartridge will come into the next space.This leaves a distance between successive cartridges equal to thethickness of each tooth. This separator will be unnecessary when thedoor is made to revolve in the same direction as the disk, but at aslower rate of speed, as in the patent of Borchardt, dated July 21,1874., No. 153,310.

Other means than the tubes and wicks may be employed for bringing thelubricating material to the required point; but the wick is throughwhich the believed to be the best arrangement for so doing.

I claim 1. The combination of a revolving disk and correspondingsegment, arranged to leave a space between, and provided with a floorupon which the cartridge or bullet is supported, with one or moregreasers arranged in relation to the disk and segment, substantially asdescribed, so that a bullet, in passing through said space, will roll incontact with said greaser or greasers, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a revolving disk and corresponding segment,arranged to leave a space between them, through which cartridges orbullets introduced in said space will be caused to roll, with a wickarranged in a tube which receives a supply of lubricating material, theouter end of said wick in such relation to the space between the diskand segment that the cartridge or bullet rolled through said space willroll in contact with the outer 1 end of said wick, substantially asdescribedr 3. The combination of a revolving disk and correspondingsegment, arranged to leave a space between, and provided with a floorupon which the cartridge or bullet is supported, with one or moregreasers arranged in relation to the disk and segment, substantially asdescribed, so that a bullet, in passing through said space, will roll incontact with said greaser or greasers, and with a separator,substantially such as described, to arrange the cartridges or bullets sothat they enter and roll through the space between the disk and segmentwithout contact with each other, substantially as described.

HUBERT R. ALLEN.

Witnesses:

DANIEL H. VEADER, JAMEs N. KIMBALL.

